Brother Ben

Tough luck there SF. You going to stick around or move on?

View only just gives you league tables no extra players To keep it more balanced, assuming lets say you manage in the English Premier league i'd be looking to load at least the top tiers of the strongest European leagues in full detail to keep the continental competions competetive. The more you load the better but obviously that will depend on what your hardware can take. There's a good thread by @Daveincid around somewhere that goes into this in more detail

Personally I wouldn't make that many free signings as I wouldn't find it realistic. Just because you can doesn't mean you should, I guess. But like phnompenhandy said, it's a 1 player game.

Fair play to him for going through the pain barrier. A modern day Bert Trautmann.

For those of a certain vintage the Left Sided Sweeper formation was always a favourite

In terms of a more simplified experience SI did this with FM Classic/Touch on the PC and decided not to continue with it. Whilst I can't be sure exactly why they pulled it the likelihood is that not enough people were playing it to justify the development costs. A lot of people on here were complaining at the time that FM was too complicated and/or had too many press conference interactions but when it was suggested that FM Classic/Touch would be perfect for them most said they did not want to play a "watered down" version. So sadly SI can't win in this regard.

Of course! Actively encouraged

We'd love to have your results on the benchmarking thread if you've got time

Thanks @jwchriste. Very little difference between the two platforms at the top end then. Price would be the only way to split these two really

Overseas rights are sold as a whole package, so that would not be on a per game basis

Saturday 3pm games are not allowed to be televised in the UK to protect attendances at lower league clubs

No need to apologise, your sheet will be handy. I commented more to give people an idea of the timescale Your observations are what this thread is all about

There will be a spreadsheet when we get a few more tests. I usually give it a month or so after release

The game will gradually get slower* until you reach about 8-10 seasons then it seems to level out in my experience *of course slower is relative and what you consider slow I may consider fast

No due to licensing they can't. Like I already said, you'll need to ask on the Sortitoutsi forums

I miss classic/touch on the PC too. Not so much for single player but for online multiplayer I found it perfect

This can't really be talked about here, you are better off asking on sortitoutsi where you downloaded them from

Yeah I saw that but they are in a lower league so it doesn't make a lot of sense edit - Alians are or were their parent club but they withdrew from the league in 21/22. Is this an oversight then? A data issue? I imagine a lot of the rules in Ukraine are up in the air at the minute anyway edit 2 - Wiki has this - promoted from the 2021–22 Ukrainian Second League - Viktoriya Sumy – merger (debut, in place of Alians Lypova Dolyna) So it looks like they have straight up replaced them so really the promotion restriction or whatever controls the title odds needs to be changed @XaW i'm not sure if you want to maybe move this thread to the Ukraine data issues area?

Okay weird question but does anyone know why Victoriia Sumy are N/A for their promotion odds? Usually it only shows this for teams that cannot be promoted like "B" teams but I can't see a link in their affiliates page that would effect this. Nor is it referenced in the league rules. Am I missing something obvious?

Not specifically but i can tell you that it would be top end for FM if thats what you're asking

Just to add to the general conversation I think its worth mentioning that you can run a lot more active leagues on FM24 than you could on FM23. Early results on the benchmarking thread suggests that if you run all leagues as active on FM24 then its (around) twice as quick as it was in FM23 So if you usually run say 20 active leagues I recon you could easily push that to say 30-40 without any difference in performance.

Makes you wonder if they are prepared to have leagues where promotion isn't possible would they look at adding deeper into the system in the USA?

Just holiday the game overnight? (Assuming you don't get a reply)

Yeah i'm hoping someone does the test with an M3. Want to see if its worth trading in my M1

Damn, beat me to it